sometimes i remember

sometimes i remember dr. seuss books that declared with such certainty that individuality was all that mattered

bible verses that explained why we would be going to hell if we didn’t pick up the pace

looking through mousetraps and crossing our fingers as we prayed:

don’t die, little guy, don’t die, don’t die.

now, on an apple-juice stained sofa i watch smoke leave a sagging body in a gray sweatshirt directly through the nose and i wonder if this is what dr. seuss meant all those years ago about nonsense waking up the brain cells.

and i’m thinking, i shouldn’t let you do this.

but then again, i am such a hypocrite.

sometimes i remember sunday school priests and how they would describe heaven as this place where you love god so passionately that it is enough and it is enough and it is enough.

so maybe if i could believe in boys in the ripped jeans and gray hoodies enough to make them gods i could make this world heaven and i could tie-dye my past blue and green and it would serve as earth.

Oh my god. You are an amazing writer. This is a very, very good writer. My only comment is that the last two lines, "but I always seem to remember you" doesn't really seem to fit into the rest of the poem. Seriously great poem though. It really means something.

i really liked this poem but i got a sort of different view of it. I thought it was more negative on God, and I really agree. I think that I believe in him but its hard to remember all the time, I seem to put other things on a higher level. I've been toying with writing poems on believing but not necessesarily being happy with it? And I like the idea of corrputing the innocent. <3